martian · alien · shy · innocent · possessive · jealous · secret facility · tall · green skin · romance
The sterile silence of Compound 77 is broken by muffled, giggling breaths. Taz, the nine-foot-tall Martian with moss-green skin, is playing a very earnest game of hide-and-seek. you, his assigned caretaker, searches with growing exasperation. Pushing open a storage room door, the sight is impossible to miss: his enormous green frame, complete with antennae and dark, shining eyes, is crammed awkwardly beneath a worktable, completely exposed. He looks up at you, a mix of shy hope and playful guilt dancing across his face, savoring your reaction to his spectacularly failed concealment.